River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-08-11


farther than ourselves, trouble vou.m
A very easy injunction that, but on
totally impracticable. as so many NOR
given b. outsiders to mental and ply,
zeal patients. Shocked and distresse
one moment. indignant at the long d,
ceptiOu practiced on her, angry with hin
who had initiated il. the next blamin
herself poignantly for daring TO thin
IN OF her imagined father. her unques
tiOnable benefactor. Honoria drove bac
to Dernside in a whirl of emotion, tina
made her preteNt of Overfatigue no mer
excuse for not joining the party down
stairs at dinner. or after on the mOon-li
lawn.
My head does ache so. she said t,
anxious Mrs. Crosbie. who fastened t,
her. Il am best alone.
.-But we are all 50 Sorry" answered
her friend-..be better; quite yourself
tomorrow. dear. Hubert Grahame sale
how pale you looked when he passed
You in the avenue. He-we shall al
miss you so.
| Another curious pang shot through
the girl ut this. The Hubert Grahame
that Mrs. CroSbie spoke of was a young
surgeon. a good friend to Jack Crosbie,
who had lately gone up to the London
hospitals. and had thence written a few
weeks before to his mother:
'.Grphame is capital fellow He
has kept me out of scrapes no end.
1 He's been taxing double duties; think
his people are pOOrish. and he hipped
now and done up with overwork. so
| want You to ask him TO Dernside for
a long while.
To Dernside, accordingly. the young
man had come, surprised when it was
/ the Hall and not the Rectory where he
+ was To bee located. and treating Miss
+ Wentworth. when he met her. with
a reserved courtesy. which she had
fancied due 10 shynesS. and had taken
pleasure in breaking down by frank
kindlinesS peculiarly her own.
That was Il dangerous experiment
At times. Hubert fell under the fas-
cinations of Honuria's charming man
merS: at others he would keep aloOf.
marking By some few little words,
perhaps. the difference between him.
Young unprOpertied professional man.
E anu lAtE AAlt- CIV AAGA nl AGAtl-AttE- W AelU-
er he cared for her as (alas. poor rich
girlD she grew To care for him. she
hardly knew; now in her dilema she
tried to persuade herself his liking was
only that of friend; then. what she
had L. DO would not hurt him As il
must hurt her
For while she lay awake that night.
and through the next day when she
kept her own rooms. HOnOria found
what lay before her in Justice TO her
-o-called fathers kindred. in justice to
herself.
Those women fighting and fencing.
/ through the world for their childrens
sake. should find rest and relief at last
She must take her turn at life's shadier
side now. Ease was delightful, wealth
was natural TO her, but she must have
done with these. And should she
/ (thcre lay the sting that made her
/ shudder SO0, must she have done with
something else, new to her hopes,
sweeter than both9 Would that, too.
[ follow i'm the track of all her other
riches?
Fair and slender and girlish as Hon
Oria seemed, there was plenty of
courage in her composition. The
second morning after that transform
| ing mystery had burst on her she wrote
two letters-Oue to Mr.. Dean another
To ..Geraldine Corbette,'' the sister
/ whose eutreatieS Mr.. Wentworth had
answered in the negative then,
with sketching-block in hand, she went
1 forth from the house, dreading and vet
desiring to face the hardest piece of
work necessity forced on her.
/ The younger CrosbieS We're playing
on the lawn. clamOring loudly that they
were 50 glad that she had come out
again. Swinging a pair of them in a
hammock stood Hubert Grahame, watch
/ ing her She knew. as She passed through
the garden, down the footpath to the
gray wall by the stream. where she so
often sat. Would he follow her. as he
50 often dido No; the young man was
turning indoors. with sigh and few
words to his hostess. which he felt i'm
PEELED then and there TO utter.
My holiday ought to be up, Mrs.
I CrO~bie | must be leaving YOU
directly
To which the lady. covertly amused,
for she fIncied she read through the
Young peoples secret, and wished her
rich girl friend no better husband than
this Young man, poor though he was,
answered demurely:
well, well, you're not in such a
hurry. are YOU, that YOU cannot spare a
little while to shelter Miss Wentworth
I from Suu,troke9 Here catching up
Japanese umbrella-.hold this over
her. pray. while she paints, and we will
talk abouty your departure at lunch time. y
80. not to be churlish. Mr.. Grahame
was forced 10 act on her suggestion.
But he went reluctantly. such a mix
ture Of feelings seething within him as
made him strangely uncOmpaniOnable,
even when he reached the spot where
the artist worked: and she, embar1 assed
more SOrely than he suspected was very
/ silent. too For minutes that seemed
am hour to both. she sedulOusly painted
ON the view before them-the river, the
woods her home. standing in stately
comfort among clusters of beech and
piue-then. said he. with a curious
/ hard ring in his voice:
/ How is il. Miss Wentworth. that
YOU having the substance of these good
/ things. desire the shadow also? Is not
/ the better part enough for you?"
Vow was her oppo tunity, but she
I trembled n she seized it. Drawing
back near him. but standing so that he
could not see her face. she answered:
Il am wanting the shadow, Mr..
/ Grahame, because for an instant Che
] faltered because the substance, as
You call it. Is mine no longer.
He looked towards her in mute
lstonishment. inclined to spring over
the intervening barrier, to see if her
/ features told him what she meant more
plainly than her words
Yours no longer he repeated,
blaukly Miss Wentworth. | don't UNI
der>taud YOU Who can take Dernside
from you?'
NO one. perhaps. she answered,
her voice calm. though her heart beat
fast. But can put 1t from me. Mr.
Grahame. You shall be the first to know
what. i'm day or two. the whole place
will be wondering over. Mr.. Went
worth was not my father | am only